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Great post. Would the timeline be right for Little Shop of Horrors to serve as a possible explanation for the evil dentist gimmick? I can only imagine what Vince might have thought when he saw Martin's sadistic dentist on screen.
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Apr 14, 2023 09:58
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Prof. Crocodile posted:And as a result of that fateful meeting, sports entertainment was born. Just think, without Gorgeous George there would be no Connor McGregor press conferences or Skip Bayless TV shows. Terminatoring up here and setting my time machine to "Gorgeous George's first match"
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Apr 27, 2023 13:25
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Crowetron posted:did they let Statler and Waldorf commentate? I don't think so, but Sheamus reunited with his cousin Beaker.
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May 16, 2023 22:07
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Cornwind Evil posted:Ironically the same list of stuff I posted. Hogan's instincts as a politician/bullshit artist probably aren't helping. They are the kind of deep-seated behavior/character trait that can persist even in people whose brain is mostly mush. There have to be some lights in Hogan's brain whenever someone asks him a question that make him go "Got to spin this, brother!"
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May 19, 2023 07:45
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GolfHole posted:wrestling is fake, the muscles are inflated, the 'snake' on santino marella's hand is just a well-trained ferret, vince drew that mustache on with a pencil, the undertaker did not throw mankind 16' off the cage it was actually just 16", Undertaker threw Mankind off Hulk Hogan's penis???
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May 19, 2023 17:30
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Watching it again I'm not sure how he was supposed to conceal a pipe considering he had no sleeves so I may be mistaking what actually happened. I think there was no attempt at subterfuge, he straight up was supposed to have the pipe in his hand and straight up lost it.
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May 24, 2023 20:22
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I've wonder how schools like that would fair today in the age of social media and not just word of mouth and name recognition. When all you know about it is Chris Jericho and guys like Cornette, who never attended and I don't think ever actually trained, telling secondhand stories, it's going to sound like the golden age. The nature of the business, even more so back then, didn't allow people to say anything negative about established people like Hart, who also ran a promotion, because it could end your career. While I think Stu was definitely among the better trainers and people from his era, it was a low bar and I'm sure he definitely wasn't the saintly grapple grandpa people make him out to be. I mean, the schools being like that back then was a result of and contributed to the business being and staying carny as gently caress. It is a vicious circle that can only really be broken out of by calling attention to it, lots and lots of attention. It wouldn't change from within, because why change what's clearly working? Just ignore the pile of dead drug addicts over there...
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May 26, 2023 04:17
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You probably had to be mindful of your momentum, too. Fail to go upwards in WCW, you are very likely to fall downwards. It's an absolutely toxic working environment that encourages absolutely bullshit behavior, but I imagine Nash was very aware that if he didn't take on the job as booker and just do whatever, they might have a feud with Hacksaw Jim Duggan ready for him, fighting for the custody of Duggan's secret child... Kevin Nash!
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May 29, 2023 22:06
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:x-pac sucks Let's go xpack!
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May 30, 2023 07:12
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If Kevin Nash was a Game of Throne character, and he might very well have been in WCW, his house motto would have been "après moi, le déluge".
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May 30, 2023 18:17
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Cornwind Evil posted:Gone, whatever it was. A Japanese fan telling Jon Moxley that his tattoo was misspelled and meant "bath wrestling" or something. Which is probably a Thing and I find it impolite to try and call out Moxley for his kinks.
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Jun 5, 2023 13:56
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Deki posted:Chikara seems like it was a loving trip. When I win a few million dollars, I will hire Robert Rodriguez to turn some of Chikara's Wikipedia pages and posts like that into a movie.
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Jun 6, 2023 07:22
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Fair, especially with how much of that is just plain tied in with toxic masculinity and rich and famous lifestyle expectations of that generation. But I think Vince's whole thing of never really turning the gimmick off until it takes over his life has probably been a considerable influence on these loud muscle men apparently getting the same problem, which becomes even moreso when you forgot you're only supposed to pretend to have brutal blood feuds. There is also the business aspect where wrestling "was" really loving carny and insane behind the scenes too, promotions snatching stars from each other, wrestlers protecting their image or status every way they could, even if they had to break someone's leg or shoot them or hit them with a squeegee. How do you remain normal in the face of a boss who just beat up a rival promotor with a sock filled with pennies?
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Jul 19, 2023 08:45
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The saga around the legal battle with Warrior's lawyer is what brought me to SA's frontpage. Thank/gently caress you, Warrior!
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:that time vince tried to hold the saudi government up for more money and had multiple wrestlers got taken hostage in an airport by the saudi government lol The Bludgeon Bros' hammers were taken to safety on Vince's private jet. Not the Bludgeon Bros though, they sat in the hostage plane.
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Jul 23, 2023 00:31
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Gavok posted:I have my own strange armchair theory about Hogan's racist statements. The short of it being, "Hulk Hogan doesn't actually hate black people, but he WILL tell the wife of an rear end in a top hat shock jock that he hates black people because he thinks that will make him look cool in the moment." It's still racism, but it's more in line with the sad way Hogan's mind works. Occam's Scott Hall suggests that they were all racist too and didn't even notice that Hogan was being problematic. But yeah, given Hogan's pathology, he'd easily be racist just to impress.
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Jul 24, 2023 14:55
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Nic should wear Old Lifted Man Vince make-up even when playing teenage Vince.
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Jul 29, 2023 18:39
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Vandar posted:The man is a legit hard worker. He sleeps like three to four hours a night at best and is working for the majority of his waking hours. He's never taken a vacation. He micromanages everything, and on top of all his wrestling work he's constantly tried to expand out into other businesses. Too bad he's poo poo at working, the stuff he micromanages is noticably worse for his influence.
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Jul 31, 2023 09:05
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Well yeah. He's the very common kind of micromanager control freak that needs to have literally everything be His Work and have his mark on it regardless of whether it's any kind of improvement, and has to make sure nobody gets to succeed or accomplish anything in a way that he can't take credit for. Actual success is worthless if it's not his success, done his way. That's a great way to describe that type of person. I am feeling a little uncomfortable with leaving it at "He's a really a hard worker" because of the positive connotations that description carries. Vince is a work-hoarder; around two thirds of the work he is doing could and should be left to other people.
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Jul 31, 2023 10:21
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Bogus Adventure posted:He enjoys every time he farts, which is probably what was going on during that du-rag strut Enjoying farting but despising sneezing, the man is a hypocrite!
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Aug 9, 2023 08:04
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Gavok posted:Tonight on AEW, actual slasher movie villain Leatherface did a run-in during a Jeff Hardy vs. Jeff Jarrett match. Tonight on TNA, you mean. Right?
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Well, the CM certainly doesn't stand for Counselling and Mediation
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:he has to go back to ufc and get his rear end kicked by a rookie again theres nowhere else for him Isn't UFC merged with WWE now? Maybe he gets to get his skinny fat rear end kicked by Loser Paul. Battle of the failures.
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Sep 2, 2023 21:59
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Who's he gonna apologize to in the WWE locker room next, only to be kindly asked to leave after Paul calls his boss?
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Sep 2, 2023 22:53
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I'm rather quick to point and laugh at Punk because, lol, but I'll admit that I just did some cursory googling about what happened. Does anyone have any details on hand yet what happened and how much of a dipshit Punk now definitely proved himself to be?
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Sep 2, 2023 23:32
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Gavok posted:It was kind of amazing watching Dynamite, taking place in Chicago, after the All In incident and not hearing a single "CM PUNK" chant. People are just loving tired. people like to make fun of Cody and they should, but I feel like completely ignoring Punk for this bullshit is infinitely more cruel and more deserved and also way funnier.
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SatansOnion posted:ngl, it bums me out a little because I'd hoped--foolishly, it would seem--that Punk might come to understand that carrying all that paranoia is destructive to him and everyone around him, and that it wouldn't, in fact, kill him to chill out and unclench for a fuckin minute You'd think the affirmation he'd get from being one of the top dogs of a rising company would give him enough to maybe outweigh his issues, and that maybe age and wisdom had calmed his temper... but he apparently only has gotten worse in every conceivable way over time.
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The best revenge is living well, and AEW has proven to be really good at revengening. CM Punk will probably go back to WWE someday out of sheer spite, and WWE will take him out of sheer spite. Neither party really knowing whe the spite is directed at.
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X JAKK posted:They should make a movie about that. Death Circus and its sequel Death Circus II
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Well, sure, I get it. I mean that's why I don't want to just call him a wuss. But realistically Punk probably wasn't going to strangle him to death in front of witnesses. Although, he IS a wrestler... This is a really stupid way to look at such situations and makes you look like a huge Internet Tough Guy.  Surely a rational person would know that physical interaction with lethal outcome is highly unlikely in that situation.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Well I see where this is going but I do maintain CM Punk murdering Tony Kahn seems highly unlikely Nobody is saying it is likely.
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Cubone posted:
Good against COVID, those boxes.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:jim cornette and cm punk have a lot in common they both get into physical altercations over stupid poo poo and take the most minor and stupid poo poo about wrestling dead serious even when no one else gives a poo poo ... two sides of the same coin It would be one thing if people like Cornette and Punk were the only alternative for how entertaining wrestlers can be and act. Like, there are so many examples of great wrestlers with toxic personalities that one is tempted to suggest that being great at wrestling requires being a total shithead. But then you watch New Day playing some video games or Daniel Bryan doing anything and you quickly realize that Punk and Cornette have no excuse. They are assholes.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I can’t listen to Jim Cornette because the constant throat clearing makes me feel like I need a lozenge. I don't listen to Cornette at all but this makes me want to hear him in a dual lecture with Zizek where the constant hrmpfs and snorts would drive any listener insane.
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Prof. Crocodile posted:This was kind of where I was going with my original comment. This story paints the dude as someone who is so accustomed to and/or uncomfortable with face-to-face confrontation that his mind immediately goes to 'OMG I'm gonna die' at the first sign of physical conflict. And if that's true it would make him a wuss by definition. What happened was a little more than that. Being uncomfortable in the face of violence should be the norm, and that is what had happened. Punk choked someone and then got in the face of someone else. Being afraid doesn't make that someone a wuss, come the gently caress on.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I absolutely believe that Tony absolutely did not fear for his life and he’s just doing PR right now. Mostly because the Wrestling audience is going to call him a wuss for what happened while shriveling into a pile of sobbing flesh when met with even the slightest form of social push-back.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:If anyone lunges at me I will suplex them, put them in camel clutch, break their back, then gently caress him in rear end and THEN they will be HUMBLE. But I am no...uh, Michael Jacksons. Yes, God bless. Thank you Gene Mean. Nah, you will calmly assess that this situation will not require such action and then communicate those plain facts to the aggressor, disabling them with your superior perception and reasoning power.
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Cubone posted:that's punk's gimmick To say this happened and everybody got up and clapped, sure. The thing is there is a concerning number of goons (i.e. bigger than one) who will actually suggest there is some merit to this bullshit view.
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Cubone posted:I don't find it that concerning. what are they gonna do, be wrong to death? Give others the idea that this is a healthy way to look at things.
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